23 responses to “Obama and the gun laws”

Seems like a no brainer to me. Can’t understand the debate at all. And the argument concerning mental health being the primary cause of killings seems weak.
A very very dear friend who was suffering from depression, shot himself a few years ago with one of several guns he owned. He belonged to a small community in India that is exempt from gun licensing! Easy access to guns cannot be good for anyone.

Whereas I whole-heartedly support President Obama and his mission to regulate guns in this country, everyone, including the President, is fooling themselves thinking that this Congress will take the appropriate action to DO THE RIGHT THING. It’s shameful that so many people in the US die from gun violence every year — shootings are poised to replace car accidents as the number 1 cause of death in this country. But an intensely divided Congress that can barely agree on extending unemployment benefits to millions without rancorous debate, political maneuvering and partisan bickering certainly won’t be able to agree on gun regulation. And the result will be that hundreds, probably thousands, of Americans will die this year alone at the hands of idiots with guns.

I don’t agree with Obama on this. Guns are not the problem, how can they be? It’s people who are the problem, the ones with the intention to kill. A gun doesn’t decide anything. I could find a book and beat someone’s brains out, but no one would ban books for that.

well, there are different kind of books for to knock down someone:
maybe we do not need any automatic war weapons – and a limited quantity of ammunition, also a focus on the danger of mental illness?
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HA! That big one would definitely work! :P And no, maybe there isn’t a need for automatic war weapons yet, but then again, military guns aren’t sold on the market for just anyone. Many “assault” rifles are semi-automatic and are just as dangerous as a hunting rifle. They are just made to look like an assault weapon. To me, I think it’s just the government trying to get involved into too much. The only reason I would see a need for an automatic gun is if our government became tyrannical or a dictatorship (something it’s looking suspiciously like recently) and we needed to refresh. Our government turning on its citizens is definitely a real possibility and I would like to be able to have a weapon to keep it from doing that. It’s happened in the past with many other countries. :)

maybe the US are opening too much wars – so that it seems to be a daily usual thing, to kill someone?
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photo below by Kenny Shackleford, days of Vietnam, Korea etc.
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kind of absurdity, that Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize – and on the other hand is the biggest user of modern Predator drones ever …

50 years ago a friend of mine, we were aged 14, made suicide with such a product of Samuel Colt, since then I hate those tools – I read that US-teachers now are training to shoot with fire arms – absurd societies, I think

Exactly – it’s romanticism each year are caused to a large number of americans are killed each year – the feeling of romanticism by firearms – makes it too easy that it ends up in murder – and Rifle Syndicate are good lobbyists – ..statistics speak for themselves – in relation to population – in Europe, Switzerland and Finland the most liberal handling of firearms and absolute European record in firearms murders – but far from the US statistics…